[email protected] tells @FedericaMog to get hiring on disinformation staff. He wants "concrete proposals for a coordinated EU response to this challenge, specifically to Russia disinformation attempts, which is currently handled by a very small strategic communications team."

In another screw-up, @facebook admits that a bug had unblocked the blocked friends of 8,00,000 users, between 29 May and 5 June 2018.

Two days ago, UCC promised a "storm" after hibernating for a while; one of its affiliates, "Fighter Muslim Cyber Caliphate" (FMCC) has claimed responsibility for targeting the website of the National AIDS Council of Zambia's Management Information System.

Apparently, Azerbaijani gov websites use local servers as top gov websites - (Parliament), and (Cabinet of Ministers) are still down.

Pro-ISIS hacking group United Cyber Caliphate UCC issued a statement indicating that being inactive recently is merely "the calm before the storm," adding that there are current divisiveness among the pro-ISIS cyber community and that it seeks to (re)unite these voices.

New malicious software spreading VERY aggressively: The attack pattern is vaguely Mirai-like but it is NOT Mirai. The executable is packed, the commands are quite polymorphic.

'Troll' stabs a cybersecurity researcher to death after being mocked online

Slack is reportedly down around the world

A global malfunction in the Telegram

Trump says US will engage with allies and partners to combat harmful technology transfer and intellectual property theft

Ukraine's @CyberpoliceUA warned yesterday that Russian hackers are preparing for a large coordinated cyber attack on the country, targeting companies, banks and energy infrastructure firms

Main opposition party CHP website that controls votes count appeared to show numbers before actual vote

Internet Research Agency creation @USA_Really (twitter account of the fake news site by the same name) followed @Garexit prior to being banned.

"I think for sure they will engage in campaign disinformation in the 2018 elections," says @HouseHomeland Chair @RepMcCaul "They're very good at that"

"Americans have a right to know who is saying what and they [Russia] obfuscate that and they make it seem like its your neighbors your friends, in some cases even your family" says @SecNielsen on Russia disnfo campaigns

Concerns also high about Russia disinfo campaigns: "The substance itself 99 percent of the time protected under our first amendment as it should be" says @SecNielsen "The goal here is to raise awareness, to try to unmask the senders, if you will, so Americans can make decisions"

@DHSgov is concerned about Russia messing with US elections, including hacking voting systems - "They have the capability" per @SecNielsen "We should assume they will try to use it"

"We're seeing a threat from nation states. They're very sophisticated" says @SecNielsen "They have spent a lot of time focusing o offensive weapons against us. They do seek to disrupt our critical infrastructure"

"Yhe way were are hyper connected todaywe can't think of this in a feudal protection way of let's build a castle and have guard gates and guns" says @SecNielsen on cybersecurity

"We are not in the propaganda business" - NATO Secretary General @jensstoltenberg on how NATO should fight the "threat to democratic institutions"

German intelligence chief says Russia tried to hack energy grid

Unna: launching new Israeli cyber bill today to formalize newish cyber agency which has combined securing Israeli cyberspace with developing long-term Israeli cyber strategy

PM Netanyahu: Our airlines and fighter planes can be brought down. Cyber creating unimaginable benefits in many areas, but also vulnerable in all the new eras

PM Netanyahu: Cyber creating new industries and creates own demand, Precision agriculture, drones in sky-can target water, fertilizer down to individual plant. Smart mobility - 500 tech cos huge progress, digital health - 1 billion shekels govt invest

PM Netanyahu: Cyber is ever-present race. We can do it, but increasing challenge. We are absolutely committed to protect ourselves, others cyber challenges. Israel gets 20% of global investment in cyber security. Punching 200x above weight

PM Netanyahu: States can cripple our most sensitive systems, can takeover vital systems. Not theoretical, already happened in the present. Threats even to our weapons

PM Netanyahu: Israeli cyber has glorious future, but faces horrible threats. How do we protect airplanes, networks, anything electronic

A sophisticated hacking campaign launched from computers in China burrowed deeply into satellite operators, defense contractors and telecommunications companies in the United States and southeast Asia, security researchers at Symantec Corp said

Hackers hit South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb, bitcoin falls

Cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb says more than $31 million worth of coins has been stolen